András Kovács

András Kovács was born in June 1925 in Kide, near Kolozsvár. He studied in Kolozsvár, then at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Budapest, from which he graduated in 1950, and afterwards headed the dramaturgy department of Mafilm. He made his first feature in 1960 and became known in 1964 with a documentary. He directed some thirty films, presided over the Hungarian filmmakers' union from 1981 to 1986, received the Kossuth Prize in 1970 and died in Budapest on 11 March 2017.

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• CinemaCold DaysHideg napokAndrás Kovács · 1966Cinema